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Privately held iSuppli takes consumer electronics apart in order to estimate how much they cost to build.

ISuppli, in findings that include the cost of manufacturing services, estimated the company's cost to make the new tablet at $203.

UBM and iSuppli differ sharply on the price of the seven-inch display and touchscreen assembly used in the device.

The big winner in the shuffle, says iSuppli analyst Andrew Rassweiler, appears to be South Korea's semiconductor giant Samsung.

Smart phones are taking over from Portable Navigation Devices (PNDs) as the major platform for navigation, says iSuppli.

Companies that are defending their market share by increasing production risk much thinner profit margins, says iSuppli.

It also has much more dynamic random-access memory to help do multiple computing chores at the same time, iSuppli's Mr. Lam said.

After seeing the iPad's performance and taking the device apart, however, iSuppli engineers revised their opinions.

iSuppli also sees an increased penetration of embedded GPS in a range of consumer and compute electronic devices by 2014.

Japan makes about 35 percent of those memory chips, IHS iSuppli estimates, and Toshiba is the major Japanese producer.

As always, iSuppli's figures don't reflect costs associated with intellectual property, royalties, licensing and other fees.

Demand for NAND memory for tablets is expected to expand over 400 percent this year, market research firm IHS iSuppli said on Friday.

Kevin Wang, iSuppli analyst, forecasts that bandit handset shipments will start to fall after peaking at 255m units this year.

The total bill of materials on a $600 i Phone -- the supplies that go into final assembly -- is $187. 51, according to supply.

ISuppli concludes the chip was manufactured for Apple by Samsung, based on its analysis of product markings.

According to iSuppli, a market-research firm, "Reports of Windows Mobile's death are greatly exaggerated. "

But the market will be hypercompetitive until then, said Ms. Alexander of IHS iSuppli.

Research firm iSuppli estimates that Apple earns a profit margin of more than 50 percent for iPhone.

"We are in the calm before the storm, " says iSuppli, a California-based market research company.

Apple has the most creative and dense designs, says Andrew Rassweiler, who heads iSuppli's teardown service.

According to iSuppli, a market-research company that specialises in technology trends, the answer is 131 years.

iSuppli, one such forecaster, thinks that revenues will fall by more than 20% this year, to $205 billion (see chart 1).

Now, however, more of this activity is being outsourced to specialised firms such as iSuppli and UBM TechInsights.

According to the market research firm iSuppli, the basic TouchPad cost Hewlett-Packard $306 to build.

The figure below supple right 2006-2011 DTV Global semiconductor sales forecast.

The research firm iSuppli expects China's gray-market mobile phone shipments to rise to 255 million this year, up 12% from 2010.

By last year, an iSuppli study reported China's ZTE knocked Motorola out of the top five phone manufacturers in the world.

Research firm IHS iSuppli recently said it projects that by 2015, 22. 9% of notebook shipments worldwide will be ARM-based systems.

Palm could ship as many as 1. 3 million Pre phones before the end of the year, according to estimates from iSuppli.

Japan accounts for about 60% of global production, according to IHS iSuppli.

Sales of OLED displays in 2006 reached $615m, says Vinita Jakhanwal of iSuppli, a market-research firm.

PC shipments are expected to increase only 4. 3% this year, according to researcher iSuppli.

ISuppli, one of the best-known firms that tears apart new devices to study their components, has boosted its estimate for Apple Inc.

The result, according to consultancy iSuppli, is that solar cell production could double this year, ramping up supplies.

ISuppli on Wednesday raised that estimate to $259. 60.

Even so, around 5m e-readers will be sold worldwide in 2009, according to iSuppli, a market-research firm, and a further 12m in 2010.

Vinita Jakhanwal, analyst at iSuppli, expects AM-OLED phones to account for only about 10 percent of all phones sold in 2013.

Laptops posted a milestone in the third quarter of 2008, passing desktop PC sales for the first time, according to research group iSuppli.

A $500 iPad, says iSuppli, costs Apple just $259. 60 to make.

With a smart-phone, for example, iSuppli starts by looking at how its 1, 000 or so parts are put together.

Global smartphone shipments are expected to rise 35. 5 percent to 247 million units in 2010, according to research group iSuppli.

In the third quarter of 2008, notebooks outsold desktops for the first time, according to research firm iSuppli Corp.

"It takes 3, 000 procedures to assemble an H. P. computer, " says Isaac Wang, an iSuppli analyst based in China.

Sales of e-readers are expected to reach 12m this year, up from 5m in 2009 and 1m in 2008, according to iSuppli, a market-research firm.

Part estimates made by component analysts such as iSuppli aren't very useful because they fail to measure costs of R&D and other factors.

About 99m LCD TVs will be sold worldwide this year, said iSuppli, a figure that is forecast to increase to 165m by 2011.

The iSuppli report estimates that grey market handset exports will jump to 110m units from 60m units last year.

IHS iSuppli forecasts that shipments will rise to more than 54m units this year, from 35m last year.

iSuppli's explanation for how this came to be reads like a page out of Steve Jobs' playbook: (I quote)

Shipments of smartphones for sale in China are set to soar by a record 53% in 2011, according to IHS iSuppli.

China smartphone market to boom, says IHS iSuppli